Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15

fulfillment of the wishes OF these estlma-
BILE gentlemen who marked the history OF
the republic with the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments. They
raised their hands in holy horror when
some beloved carpet Dagger wrote let
ter to the "truly loil'' newspapers telling
them how the southern "rebel'' refused
and persisted in refusing TO invite the
colored man to his table, give him his
daughter in marriage and share his state
room or Pullman sleeper with him. 1t
was an outrage, they ssid; it was VIC
lation and notification of the laws OF
the land; it was defiance OF constituted
authority and an outrageous proscrip-
ton to refuse to receive a man
on terms of social equality A
southern gentleman might fud bo0T-
ish and uncongenial companions among
his own color; he might shut his
door in the faces of ignorant and disso-
Lutte whites, but if he prevented colored
men from trespassing on his individusl
rights he was guilty Of grave ofense.
The Colored man was told that the old
abolition sentiment in the north still
lived, and all he had to do wss to so
there IN order to enjoy full liberty and
social equality. In Yenkeadom, if q man
paid his poll tax he was just as good as
any other nan, 10 matter what the color
OF his skin. Agitators and modern Mo
seses were sent south to lead the sable
children of Israel cut OF the land
of bondage and into the lsnd of promise,
and these apostles of light succeeded in
convincing many that their former friends
and masters were their enemies, and that
friends, pure and 'disinterested, lived
north OF Mason and DiXon's line. As a
natural result, those COlored men who
could be sWayed by the sophistries OF
these itinerant eVangelists, fors0ok the
old home and associations with which
they we're familiar, and moved north
ward They naturally expected to find
ali the glorious promises realized as
soon as they set foot upon northern soil.
First-class hotels, Offices OF public trust
and various positions of honor and emol-
ument were to be found waiting for them,
and no distinction was to be made be-
tween the races. Recent events have
proven the fallacy of these expectations.
In the south the colored man secures all
recognition which his education or talents
merit; in the north the color of his skin
damps him. In Philadelphia, the strong
hold of Repubhcanism and, with Boston,
the twin cradle of the abolition idea, the
coIored pupils were prohibited from join
ing their voices in the songs of rejoicing
on the nations natal day. The law
gave them the right to attend the free
schools and mingIe with the white chill
dreD, but, no matter how we'll qualified,
they could not and must not disport and
display themselves in company with white
children, when anyone could gee them:
Not because of their color; oh, 40! 1t
was because "their voices were harsher
and did not accord tremendously with
the voices Of the white children"
Further north, the owner OF Ash
bury Park, staunch Republi-
can, has refused permission to
colored people to enter his premises
no matter what money they are willing to
pay, and in the Grand Army of the Re
public colored men who had the awful
to claim social equality with
the men who fought and bled and died
for them were incontinently "hred."
Thus the loud mouthed professions and
vauntings of tie north have
been proven to be nothing more than
brass and tinkling cymbsls.
While the question was only theoretical
one all was fair sailing; as
soon as it was reduced to a praticsI test
it was different thing. Even the pa
triotic ingalls, went SO far as to say that
the extension of the right of suffrage TO
the coIored people was a fatal mistake.
These things should teach the Colored
people q lesson. The south is never
bubbling over with hypoCritiCal profess
sions of love and venerstion, but she
treats them as other citizens are treated.
They are given fair and equal chance
with their white fellow citizens in all the
paths and pursuits of life, and if they fail
to advance themselves it is their own
fault. The southern people are the col
ored mans true friends; his interests are
their interests, and the sooner he COM
mences to cultivate patriotic feelings and
desires, and joins with the white man OF
the south in Strengthening and upbuilding
common country the better. The north
is interested in the colored mans vote,
the south is interested in his material
prosperity.
LABOR AND IMMIGRATION,
The protection of American labor, long
& myth, is about to become q reality.
Enrichlng lot of manufacturing princes
and enabling them to dictate terms to
their employees will not long constitute
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